Tag Archives: Workers’ Compensation

A veteran injured working for Starbucks is entitled to temporary total disability benefits starting seven months after the injury and continuing, based on his testimony and expert opinion evidence, the Court of Appeals said. Veteran injured his back working for ...

The Court of Appeals affirms the commission decision ordering a realty company to pay temporary partial disability benefits to a handyman injured falling from a ladder, until his doctor released him to light duty work. Handyman worked making repairs for ...

The Court of Appeals affirmed a majority decision of the Workers’ Compensation Commission awarding a trucker temporary partial disability benefits claimed more than a year after his last benefit under a stipulated order based on evidence of changed economic condition, ...

The Court of Appeals affirmed the majority decision of the Workers’ Compensation Commission, one commissioner dissenting, denying temporary disability (medical) benefits to a deputy sheriff for failure to prove that his knee injury was caused by a workplace condition or ...

A school custodian cannot collect workers’ comp for “frozen shoulder” as a compensable consequence of the fractured sternum she suffered when a supervisor assaulted her as she cleaned a classroom, and the Court of Appeals affirms judgment for the school ...

A cook who slipped on a wet restroom floor and hit his right shoulder against a sink can collect workers’ comp; the Court of Appeals says the evidence does not show that the cook failed to reveal his past shoulder ...

The Court of Appeals agrees with employer that the commission’s award of temporary partial disability benefits should be reversed and remanded to determine the correct amount. Employee suffered a compensable injury to his lower left leg in October 2007. Before ...

The Court of Appeals affirms termination of temporary total disability benefits but authorizing continuation of medical benefits with a different doctor. In June 2007 while working as a housekeeping supervisor, Hayes tore a tendon in the center of her right ...

The Court of Appeals says that being available for overtime does not reasonably market a claimant’s residual work capacity, and claimant loses his appeal on his request for temporary partial disability benefits. Claimant is not entitled to temporary partial disability ...